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Source: <<A>> book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs. http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/203805

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King's College at Cambridge is now building by order of the Reverend Dr. Snape, Provost of that College, and of the Fellows thereof. The Provost, then Vice-Chancellor, laid the first Stone of this Fabrick. It is built of Portland Stone, and is detach'd from the Chapel as being a different kind of Building, and also to prevent damage by any accident of Fire. The Court could not be larger than is express'd in the Plan, because I found, upon measuring the Ground, that the South-East Corner of the intended East Side of the Building came upon Trumpington-Street. This College, as design'd, will consist of Four Sides, (viz.) The Chapel, a beautiful Building of the Gothick Taste, but the finest I ever saw; opposite to which is propos'd the Hall, with a Portico. On one side of Hall is to be the Provost's Lodge, with proper Apartments: On the other side are the Buttery, Kitchen and Cellars, with Rooms over them for Servitors. In the West Side, fronting the River, now built, are 24 Apartments, each consisting of three Rooms and a vaulted Cellar. The East Side is to contain the like number of Apartments.

PLATE XXXII.
The General Plan of the new Building, with the Chapel.

PLATE XXXIII.
The West Side fronting the River, and the Front of the Hall.

PLATE XXXIV.
The middle part of the West Side, upon a larger Scale.

PLATE XXXV
The Sections of the Hall, which is 40 feet wide, 80 feet long, and 40 feeet high, to be finish'd in Stucco.

PLATE XXXVI
The Publick Building at Cambridge, of which I have given but one Plate; the Front in Perspective, and the Plan in small over it. It consists of a Library, the Consistory, Register-Office and Senate-House. The latter is already built of Portland Stone, as the rest of the Buildings is to be. It is of the Corinthian Order, having all its Members enrich'd; the Cieling and Inside-Walls are beatified by Signori Artari and Bagutti.

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